God’s army is to cast him out

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341 Satan’s army brings diseases. That’s what Satan is, he’s a destroyer. Satan, the whole kingdom of Satan, is sickness, death, and sorrow, and flusterations, and worry, all on Satan.

God is Life, faith, joy, peace, over here. See?

342 Now, that’s the two great forces that’s coming together right now. They’re battling. They’re battling right here in the building right now. They battle, day by day, with you, every force.

343 Satan, following you along, that great, big, kingly, priestly Goliath trying to scare the liver out of you. He’s right, but God…

344 You’re fortified, amen, with the Gospel, with the Word of Truth around your loin. Glory! Preacher, that’s what it is. Helmet of salvation; the shield of faith; and the Sword, waving It in your hand! “Satan, I’m coming to meet you. You meet me in the name of science. You meet me in the name of—of culture. You meet me in the name of organization. You meet me in the name of this, that, or the other. But I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel. I’m coming after you. Give way!” Even death itself can’t stand there. Chop a hole right through it. That’s right.

345 Satan’s army brings diseases, and God’s army is commissioned to cast them out. Amen. There you are. Every time Satan throws any on, onto you, God’s army is to cast him out. Amen. Cast out!

The Greatest Battle Ever Fought - 62-0311 - William Marrion Branham

He’s just exactly like you

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How that the Holy Spirit must feel today, when It goes before God with a bowed, shamed face as it was, to have to take a report of our indifferences in the church today. How we’ve laid aside all the baptism of the Spirit, how that the churches are having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof. How He must blush to say, “Your daughters are dressing immorally.” How He must blush to say, “Your children can’t even agree with one another long enough to have a meeting.” How that they’re making fun of your people that’s been called out and filled with the Spirit. How the Holy Ghost must feel to go before God with such messages as that. Coming back, saying they’re having a form of godliness…They don’t believe in the supernatural no more. They won’t even go to church on Wednesday night; they stay to watch some favorite television program. How it must be…

28 “And Your gifts that You send down to Your church to confirm Your Word that You promised, people walk away and call it the works of the devil.” Now remember, the Holy Spirit’s got to bring to God everything that every professing Christian says about it. Because He sent…

Well, may the Father say, “Did You try? Did You knock at the heart’s door?”

“I knocked night after night, and they won’t listen.” How He must feel. How can…He trusted us. Like He did Adam and Eve, put them in the garden of Eden and trusted them to be right, to obey His Word. They fell; and as soon as man gets things in his hand, he will fall every time. He cannot hold it himself. It takes God to hold us.

29 Then we notice again, that when…What if that boy was a good boy? Oh, how the teacher would shove out his chest, walk up to the father, and say, “I am so glad, sir, to bring you the message of the—how your son is progressing. He’s just as smart as he can be. He’s just—just like you. He’s a…as we would call it a chip off of the block. He’s just exactly like you; he loves the same thing you love. He does the work just exactly like you done it when you was out there.”

That’s the kind of a church that the Holy Ghost likes to witness for before God. “The kind of works,” Jesus said, “that I do, shall you also.” That’s the kind of a church that the Holy Spirit likes to witness before God.

30 And then if that child (that son) did not obey and was not obedient child, it never was no more than a son; it remained a son, but yet it had no inheritance.

Now, we don’t want to stay in that place. The church ought to be a thousand miles up the road farther than it is tonight. The Pentecostal blessings has been falling on the people here in America for fifty years; and if anything, we’re dwindling instead of going on. “What are you preaching such as this for, Brother Branham?” I want to see the church of God in deep sincerity; I want to see the old fashioned prayer meetings. I want to see them times when they can’t leave church; they just stay all night, and pray, and fast, and call out till God answers. Instead of that, it seem like love has dwindled away from us. The love of God…just love…

Why, a real Christian can hardly wait: when the bell rings, he’s got the front seat, and there ready with the song book in his hand. But now, we say, “Oh, my, I don’t know.”

Oh, blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. When we asunder part, It gives us inward pain; But we shall still be joined in heart, And hope to meet again.

That’s the way real Christianity is a living experience. Pentecost is not a denomination; Pentecost is an experience that anybody can have if they’ll wish to have it. It’s something that you experience, the Holy Spirit.

Hear Ye Him - 60-0313 - William Branham

They stick their Tents down

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103 You know, it used to be, if a woman or a man said they was a Christian, people respected it. But, today, they just like to see how much fun they can make out of it. See? See? Irreverent group! My!

Why? You know what? This is the reason. They’re not conscious that That’s the Truth. They’re not conscious of God. They don’t remember that the Bible says, that, “The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him.” They don’t only just come and visit them. They, They stick their Tents down. Amen. “The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear His Name,” stay there day and night.

The old colored brother sang that song, The Angels Keep Watching Over Me. Said, “All day, all night, Angels keep watching over me.” That’s right. “All day and all night, Angels keep watching over me.”

104 Jesus said, about, “Them little ones,” said, “take heed that you don’t offend one of them, for their Angels always beholds My Father’s face which is in Heaven.” See? They’re always camped about, watching those.

The Influence Of Another - 62-1013 - William Branham

But let me tell you a little secret

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But let me tell you a little secret, the most powerful force in the world isn’t speaking with tongues, or interpreting tongues, or being honored by God to be a minister, or to be an evangelist, or to be a prophet, the most powerful weapon that I’ve ever found in my life, is love. It’ll…The phileo love, which the Greek word comes from friendship, like you have for your wife. There’s a difference. It’ll make a mother for that baby, run through a blazing fire, her life means nothing, that’s phileo. What will Agapao do? See? The godly love.

We must love, Divinely love one another, then you don’t see your brother’s mistake. If he does make a mistake, you never, you look over the top of it, and you love him anyhow. See? That’s it. Love those that love you, then does not the sinner the same thing? But love those who doesn’t love you, that’s what shows the Spirit of God is in you, ’cause He loved you when you were His enemy, and He loved you. And if that Spirit’s in you, It’ll make you love your enemy, as you do your friend.

From That Time - 61-0415B - William Branham